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Many thanks to Shawn Speakman of Grim Oak Press for inviting me to contribute to his new anthology Unfettered II – Tales by Masters ofFantasy, which will include A Duel of Evils, a previously unpublished short story set in the Raven’s Shadow universe. The profits from Unfettered II will go to cancer research and alleviating the medical debt of authors. The book will be available in November 2016 but you can pre-order the hardcover on the Grim Oak Press website.

Here’s the full author line-up:

Bradley Beaulieu (Song of Shattered Sands)

Terry Brooks

Jim Butcher (Dresden Files)

Rachel Caine

Sarah Beth Durst (The Queens of Renthia)

David Farland

Charlaine Harris

Mark Lawrence (Gunlaw)

Erin Lindsey (Bloodbound)

Seanan McGuire

Aidan Moher

Naomi Novik

Peter Orullian (Vault of Heaven)

J.A. Pitts

Anthony Ryan (Raven’s Shadow)

Brandon Sanderson

Scott Sigler

Shawn Speakman (Annwn Cycle)

Michael J. Sullivan (The Legends of the First Empire)

Django Wexler

Janny Wurts

Todd Lockwood (Cover Artist)

Don Maitz (Interior Illustrator)

And here’s the story about how this anthology came about:

‘Without health insurance and diagnosed with cancer in 2011, Grim Oak Press owner Shawn Speakman accrued massive medical debt while treating the disease. Rather than declare medical bankruptcy, he reached out to fellow authors and received donated short stories in return—many from New York Times bestselling writers. The stories were collected and became Unfettered, the proceeds from the sci-fi/fantasy anthology eliminating his debt burden.

To pay forward the aid he received—and to memorialize his mother who passed away earlier this year from Stage 4 stomach cancer—Speakman has again collaborated with celebrated sci-fi/fantasy authors to publish Unfettered II. “My mother first put books into my life as a child. Later she helped me survive two different cancers,” said Speakman. “Having lost her to cancer, I will focus my sorrow in a way that will make a difference. Unfettered II is the beginning of that.”

All proceeds from Unfettered II will go toward ending medical debt for other authors as well as be donated in partnership to the Cancer Research Institute in New York, NY.

Such notable New York Times bestselling authors as Terry Brooks (“The Shannara Chronicles”),